A Spanish influencer's thousands of followers turned against her after she twerked as a “form of expressing my protest” as Barcelona burned around her.
Instagram dancer Sandra Kisterna caused controversy with her moves during the ongoing Catalan unrest.
Battles between demonstrators and police have been ongoing for a week.
Leaders of the Catalan independence movement have been jailed leading to barricades being built with 182 people hurt in the historic city.
But the dancer got under the skin of many as her clip went viral - watched by nearly with 400,000 in one day.
She has refused to back down and delete the dance.
The video shows her wiggling her bum on a burning Barcelona street with the message: “I do not want to offend people who are out to fight for their rights. This is my form of expressing my protest!
“I am aware that not everyone will take it well, but I have freedom of expression like everybody!”
“There are people who are taking to the streets to participate in violence and I want no part of it. What I saw last night in Barcelona was terrible, my city was ruined, there was chaos all around.”
But it was not well recieved.
Netizen ‘Gabrielajimenez24’ commented: “This ‘expression’ makes no sense at all!”
‘Felixbbdd’ wrote: “No offence, but do you think this was a moral thing to do when you knew it could bother people.
"This is not a ‘protest’ in my view. It is taking advantage of a situation where people are being hit around the head with truncheons on our streets.
"Claim freedom of speech all you want, but I only see you using the situation as an excuse to gain fame.”
‘Yasfaira97’ said: “The dancer should be told that although she thought she was doing a good thing, the timing was wrong. That’s all.”
A week of demonstrations and riots in Catalonia were sparked when the Spanish authorities sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison.
According to local media, so far 600 people have been injured including one police officer who is in a serious condition.
Football authorities have already cancelled next weekend's El Classico between Barcelona and Real Madrid because of security concerns.
